Into the contrey, in symple aray alone,
To heere what men seide of thy persone.
Occleve, De Regimine Principum,
ed. Wright (Roxb. Club), p. 92.
[71] So John the Reeve; five or six times in each.
[72] Printed in The British Bibliographer, IV, 81, thence in Hartshorne’s Metrical Tales, p. 293, and, with some improvements from the MS., in Hazlitt’s Early Popular Poetry, I, 11. ‘The King and the Hermit’ is told as ‘the romans says,’ v. 15. It is, as Scott has explained, the source of a charming chapter (the sixteenth of the first volume) of ‘Ivanhoe.’ There are many agreements with ‘The King and the Shepherd.’
[73] Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, ed. Brewer, Speculum Ecclesiæ, IV, 213-15, about 1216.
[74] See Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist. Reg. Brit., vi, 12, Wace, Roman de Brut, 7111-44, ed. Le Roux de Lincy, I, 329, Layamon’s Brut, 14297-332, Madden, II, 174 f.; and for other drinking-calls besides these, Wace, Roman de Rou, Part iii, 7357-60, ed. Andresen, II, 320.
[75] Preface to ‘The King and Miller of Mansfield.’
[76] 1578, September 25, licensed to Ric. Jones, ‘A merry Songe of a Kinge and a Shepherd:’ Arber, II, 338.
1624, December 14, to Master Pavier and others, among 128 ballads, ‘King and Shepperd:’ Arber, IV, 131.